(Our thanks to Hot Air).

We thought that they’d never be able to surpass themselves in paranoic hysteria after the evil, evil CROSS in that Fuckabee ad (while utterly ignoring the huge, lighted OBVIOUS cross in a later Obamessiah ad, but we digress…), but yet again we were proven wrong. We have to admit that we’re fascinated with the clowns in the MSM and the worshipful and hysterical ways in which they see a “wrong” every single time their Anointed One is criticized in any way.

So McSpain made an ad critical of the Obamessiah’s flip-flopping on the war and you’d expect that the MSM, if they were to retain even the slightest semblance of seriousness, would go to the mattresses on that particular subject, no? Well, they didn’t. You see, at the beginning of that ad, the title “The Obama Iraq Documentary” fades in by using a randomizer. You know, the sort of thing you can also use in PowerPoint presentations where the words in a piece of text pop in, one random letter at a time.

As the letters pop in, for one brief moment the letters “a”, “I” (upper-case “i” which, in most sans serif fonts looks just like a lower-case “L”), “q” and “D.”

And this is where the outrage, OUTRAGE!!!!™ comes in.

But still. . . . For a brief moment, Obama’s face is framed by letters that the brain may want to play with and spell something that does make sense. If you type “al qD” into Google, you get this response: “Did you mean: al qaeda.”

Of COURSE! Why didn’t we see that? It’s right there! Obviously, OBVIOUSLY the McVain campaign is trying to tie the Obamessiah to al Qaeda through their nefarious, deliberate use of a randomizer! The HORROR! The HUMANITY!!!

Well — is that what the McCain campaign meant?

No. Actually, what they meant was, and you’ll see that quite clearly if you jump two frames forward, stand on your head, put a piece of yellow cellophane in front of your face, slam your head against a marble cutting board three times and squint, to imply that The Obamessiah’s grandparents kidnapped the Lindbergh baby. It even shows the coordinates for where the kid was held! Actually, if you blink your eyes quickly, you’ll also get the location of Jimmy Hoffa’s corpse.

No, said McCain spokesman Brian Rogers, adding that the admakers used a “text randomizer,” where a computer randomly chose the order in which the letters would appear.

“The idea that it’s in any way done by the campaign intentionally is preposterous,” Rogers said when asked by ABC News whether the campaign meant to draw a link between Obama and al Qaeda.

“Preposterous” isn’t the right word. You need to turn it into an adverb and use it with adjective such as “preposterously retarded.” But it’s halfway correct, at least.

Rogers added that tens of thousands of people have viewed the video since it was released Thursday afternoon, and no one had asked the campaign about the letters in the beginning of the ad before ABC was in touch.

You obviously hadn’t focus-polled a group of pathologically insane people before you released it, which is forgivable. It used to be a rather insignificant demographic, but that all started to change back in 2000 when the election was “stolen” from the Gorebecile.

“It’s so subliminal, even when it’s freeze-framed, it’s incomprehensible,” Rogers said. “We didn’t freeze-frame every frame in an eight-minute video to trouble shoot what liberal-bloggers might attack us for.”

Mheh. Good answer. Of course, it’s only going to inflame the nutroots and the MSM (redundancy alert these days) more, but a good answer nonetheless.

Still, in this era of hyper-analysis — and in the very week that a non-subtle New Yorker cover was blasted as beyond the bounds of satire — should something like this have slipped by Team McCain?

Nice sleight of hand there. Because of a wholly media-manufactured non-controversy, everybody (except for the Anointed Lightworker, of course) are now obligated to waste days going through every single word they say to make sure that not a single nutroot schizophrenic out there might conceivably find something to be offended about. And we used to think that the people seeing the Madonna in a slice of burnt toast were crazy.

As the veteran Democrat notes, every frame of anything put out by a campaign is typically reviewed and triple-checked. This could be carelessness, a bad joke by a too-clever staffer, or inevitable given all the letter combinations that emerge from the immense quantity of video content produced by campaigns these days.

Well… Yes. Given that we have a mere 26 letters in the English language to choose from, and given that you obviously don’t even have to randomly end up with all of the letters in any given term to be accused of “deliberately and subliminally inserting a message”, it’s hard for us to imagine any phrase that couldn’t possibly lead to some clinically insane Obamessialyte seeing something that wasn’t there.

Matthew Dowd, a former strategist for President Bush who is now an ABC News consultant, said something like this should have been caught before it was sent out. He noted that campaigns need to be extra sensitive in the wake of the 2000 Republican National campaign ad attacking Al Gore that was revealed to feature a quick shot of the word “RATS.”

No, they don’t. Not unless they also agree to cut their own nuts off. As we’ve already pointed out, it’s virtually impossible to create anything that can’t, in some way, be interpreted as a “deliberate, subliminal message” if the viewer spends enough time looking for it. Also, and this is even more important to point out: The thing about “subliminal messaging” is that if your audience notices it, then it ISN’T one. It’s a dose of Epic Fail instead. The whole point of subliminal messages, and we really honestly can’t believe that we have to point this out in the first place, is that you DON’T notice them.

But what this whole non-issue IS is a nice distraction. Now, instead of discussing the ACTUAL message of the video, which is how the Obamessiah is like Texas weather: if you don’t like it, just wait five minutes and you’ll get something else, we’re talking about something that is utterly irrelevant and wholly manufactured by a group of people with a vested interest in us NOT talking about the actual content.

Because that would be awfully inconvenient to their Messiah.

Well played.

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